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Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

Rent seekers are individuals or organizations with successful existing business models who use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants that might threaten their business models. The tech ecosystem got a rude awakening in May 1998 when the U.S. Bill Gurley’s point.)

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Carpe Diem. The New Exits.

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Using this idea to differentiate themselves as the hot new Silicon Valley VCs, some of his former business school students made this phrase their rallying cry. The only problem is that it’s simply not true. Golder and G.

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. internet. (6). Small and medium businesses. (2). for Lawson?

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation. (Social entrepreneurs take note!)

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Recurring Revenue is Magic

Seeing Both Sides

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. It was the last day of the third quarter of the year and we hard more deals we needed to close to finish the quarter strong and report numbers to Wall Street that justified our high-flying profile as a recently public Internet commerce software company. million to $22.5 They are 10x better.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it. Where am I today?